In September 1982 a symposium of 'The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture' was held at Christ Church in Oxford. The present two volumes collect papers and chairmen's introductions.
THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS
A.I. Doyle, Introduction
F. Mütherich, The Library of Otto III
R.M. Thomson, The Norman Conquest and English Libraries
Sigrid Krämer, Die Bibliothek von Ranshofen im frühen und hohen Mittelalter
GLOSSED BOOKS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
G. Lobrichon, Conserver, réformer, transformer le monde: les manipulations de l'Apocalypse au moyen âge central
Klaus Grubmüller, 'Liber a libertate legencium'. Vokabularien als Instrumente von Kontinuität und Wandel
Walter Berschin, Glossierte Virgil-Handschriften dreier Aetates Virgilianae
Index of manuscripts